What once seemed like a climb for the athletic elite is becoming more accessible. Find out how this "secret weapon" is changing mountaineering on Mount Everest.

He ran the Boston Marathon in under four hours. A week later, he summited Mount Everest. Here's what the New York athlete ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mt. Everest is the world's tallest peak. But some mountaineers, like Garrett Madison, say it isn't the hardest to climb. Hundreds ...

Lhakpa Sherpa achieved her eleventh Mount Everest summit, a new record for women. She stated her intention to continue ...

In her 60s, Eva Steinwald started climbing mountains. Last year, she summited Mount Everest. She shares the mental resilience ...

A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountain’s south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said.

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said ...

A Mount Everest veteran tells CBS News why retrieving "Green Boots," whose remains have become a grim waypoint for climbers, would be a perilous mission.

As India plans to retrieve the body of ‘Green Boots’, experts explain to Maroosha Muzaffar why Everest’s dead are rarely ...

Dawa Sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu, where doctors treated him for frostbite, severe dehydration and a fractured thigh bone.

This season, climbers attempted the 8,849-metre peak from the Nepal side after China closed the northern route through Tibet ...

Indian authorities are seeking to recover the body of a climber known as “Green Boots” from the upper slopes of Mount Everest ...